Iron Steps
Subtitle: Illustrated History of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
By: by Donald R. Serfass.
Edition: First
Publisher: D.R. Serfass
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tamaqua, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Tamaqua (Pa.) -- History.
First sentence: No written history is ever complete.
Description: Written in the early 1990s and published in 1995, the first illustrated history of Tamaqua, PA, founded 1799; incorporated 1832, a coal and railroad center in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Notes: Includes index. Over 50 illustrations.
Table of contents: title: Tamaqua, The Indian Name; title: Tamaqua's Settlers, The Legend; title: The Founding Family; title: The Moser/Mosser Controversy; title: Coal Ignites Tamaqua's Growth; title: A Word on the Discovery of Coal; title: Other Early Industry; title: Hegarty Blacksmith Shop, 1848; title: Tamaqua Incorporates, 1832; title: The Great Flood, 1850; title: Tamaqua's Downtown Develops; title: Anthracite County, 1850; title: Money in the Bank since 1850; title: Potter's Field, 1850; title: The Molly Maguires; title: The Murder of Police Officer Ben Yost; title: Pioneers in Education, 1810; title: The National First Commercial Railroad; title: Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Tamaqua; title: First Fish Hatchery in the U. S., 1871; title: Tamaqua Gas Co. & Trivia; title: Tamaqua Journalism, 1849; title: Uphill; title: The Fire Companies; title: Tamaqua Religion; title: And What Tomorrow?